- Tune Up Tunes® Concept: Simultaneous legato and staccato in both hands
- Level: Mid Elementary
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pieces of one-page music, cover included!
- Style: Energetically
- Bonuses: 3 mp3 recordings included
- Format: PDF instant download
- Series: Tune Up Tunes®
A Little Drama is a set of Tune Up Tunes® in which each piece contains staccato in one hand and legato in another. The staccatos allow students to really feel the tenseness and drama taking center stage in these pieces – which makes them easier to play! Making up a story for each A Little Drama piece and making the staccato and legato notes characters themselves can add even more fun to these pieces.
Included are these one-page pieces:
- Tense Moment
- Intermission
- Scene Changes
What Level is A Little Drama?
The three A Little Drama pieces are mid elementary, with the smallest note value being a quarter note. The key signatures are not included, but accidentals are written in (only one piece contains an accidental). There is no pedaling. Hand positions are fairly stationary so that the focus can be on the technique of playing staccato and legato together, rather than moving around the keyboard.
What is the Tune Up Concept?
This set of Tune Up Tunes® tunes up:
- Simultaneous staccato and legato – Staccato in right hand, legato in left hand
- Simultaneous staccato and legato – Staccato in left hand, legato in right hand
- Reading slightly “out of position”
What are Tune Up Tunes®?
Short Sheets® Tune Up Tunes® are collections of three, one-page pieces to help your students improve their skills in specific areas that students typically struggle. Tune Up Tunes® are part of our Short Sheets® collection which helps motivate busy students who need to learn music quickly. These shorter pieces help give students quick wins as well as help expose them to reading more different kinds of music which improves their reading skills.
A Little Drama is part of both Tune Up Tunes® (which focus on specific problem areas) and Short Sheets®. This series is excellent for:
- Online lessons (they are easy to teach)
- Summer lessons (they are fun and don’t take as much time to learn)
- Sight reading
- Students with short attention spans
- Young students who are afraid of lengthy pieces (you’d be surprised at how many of your student balk at 2 page pieces)
- Busy students (isn’t that all students these days?)
- Students who want to learn an awesome piece of music quickly
And as a teacher, you’ll love Tune Up Tunes® because you know that you are giving students sound pedagogical music that helps improve specific skills with which students typically struggle.
Are there bonuses to A Little Drama?
Yes!
When you purchase A Little Drama Tune Up Tunes®, you will receive a bonus mp3 recording of each of the three pieces. This can help your student learn the piece more quickly. You are permitted to send these example performance tracks to your students to help them learn the piece.
What is the Studio License?
A Little Drama is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use this for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching. It’s like getting an unlimited supply of Music Kids Love®!
Want more Short Sheets® or Tune Up Tunes®?
We have many sets of these fun and easy pieces. Check out the Short Sheets® and Tune Up Tunes® collection here.
Or purchase the discounted Tune Up Tunes® Bundle #1 here.
Melody –
Clever skill exercises that are a challenge, but are not intimidating at one page long. I count them towards completing our studio 20 piece challenge. Way more fun than just working out of a technical exercises book.
I love that I don’t have to buy larger books for each student. I can just print out a page to work on a particular skill as needed. Catchy tunes that can get stuck in your head!